It was Regina Leader-Post Day for me today! It began with a pre-birthday lunch for my dear friend Susan Craig (on the far right), who is known as "Auntie Sooz" to my kids, and my dear friend Maureen Baker (in the centre), who has been our group's "social convenor," and we appreciate that! Our husbands all worked together at the Leader-Post for decades.
At the table next to us, unplanned but cool, sat three former Leader-Post photographers - Bryan Schlosser, Don Healy, and Troy Foster. What a nice surprise. As the guys had a photo taken of them together, I was having a sip of water in the background! We had fun visiting and catching up with each other.
Then I travelled to another part of the city to get a haircut, and I ran into Darrell Davis, a longtime L-P sports writer I worked with on two books he co-wrote (Football in Focus and Jim Hopson's Running the Riders)!
My last stop of the day was to deliver some complimentary copies of the new book I co-wrote with Dorrin Wallace, Flying a Gooney Bird in Canada's North, to former L-P editorial journalist Will Chabun, who helped me and author Mary Harelkin Bishop edit this fascinating book of aviation tales.
What a great blast-from-the-past day! Proving once again that some work relationships can endure for decades.
As a fun aside, and I've never told Bryan this, I am still using the Dahle paper cutter I bought from him in 1983 when he shut down his photo processing lab because of his work at the L-P, and I decided to start my freelance writing and set up a photography darkroom in my house. The handle of the paper cutter finally came loose and broke off a couple of weeks ago, but it still works great and has been a sturdy, valuable (and inexpensive) tool in my home office for 42 years. Thanks, Bryan!
